Japan's Fuji Oil resumes normal refinery ops ahead of plan

Fuji Oil Co (Shinagawa)

14/11/2018 06:07

TOKYO, Nov 14 (Reuters) - 
    * Japan's Fuji Oil  5017.T  said it had resumed normal
operations
at its power outage-hit 143,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Sodegaura
refinery, east of Tokyo, ahead of its last week's projection for
mid-December.
    * The sole 143,000-bpd crude distillation unit (CDU) was
restarted
on Oct. 4, following the blackout on Oct. 1, caused by typhoon
Trami. The company, since then, had been restarting secondary
units.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N1XJ2T5 
    * The company last week projected the prolonged shutdown to
reduce
its operating profit by around 2 billion yen ($17.56 million)
due to a decline in product sale volumes, but the
earlier-than-projected resumption of normal operations may
change that outlook for profit decline, it said on Wednesday.
($1 = 113.9000 yen)


 (Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)
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